![]() The film's writer-director team, The Wachowski Brothers, are also avid fans (and ex-writers) of comics, and they hired well-known artists Geoff Darrow and Steve Skroce to design and storyboard each scene in the film. Perhaps most overtly, a scene from the cult British TV series The Prisoner, about a rogue secret agent kept captive in a fake village, can be seen as Neo runs through an old woman's apartment. The slow-motion shell casings spilling over the ground are a trope of John Woo's films made in Hong Kong, where they also got the wire-work of Yuen Wo Ping. teams moving through sickly green dilapidated buildings clearly recall Se7en. The Matrix wears its many influences on its sleeve: The future ruled by evil sentient robot overlords is taken from The Terminator (which is itself a pastiche of Harlan Ellison's stories Soldier and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream). I'm going to assume the reader is familiar with the film (as most noders certainly seem to be). You must see it for yourself." Well, we did, and four years, four hundred and sixty million dollars, and over a million DVDs later, no one needs to be told. The original tagline used to promote The Matrix was "No one can be told what the Matrix is. The whole thing - the insect machines that in fact are from a higher dimension, which supposedly enslaved their own. The jumps from buildings, the magic mirror, the boy who's being inducted called the One, the black drones, the shades, the fetish. After the initial rage, when I really went through it plot point by plot point and image by image. ![]() Interviewer: If you cut out every panel of The Invisibles and arrange them in a new order you can practically storyboard The Matrix. ![]()
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